Published: 11:55 am,Thursday 7 November 2024
BRICS membership – What’s not to like?
The annual BRICS Summit was held last week in Kazan, the capital city of Russia’s Tatarstan region. The original member countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – held their first get-together under the BRIC banner in 2009. In 2011, South Africa joined the group, and an “S”
Published: 15:03 pm,Friday 12 April 2024
Nuclear energy: It is worth hopping on a plane to Brussels
Nuclear energy is produced for good reasons. In the early days of January, the coldest winter conditions for decades raised electricity consumption in Finland to a maximum of 15 gigawatts, which is the biggest quantity for nearly a decade. There was indeed demand for electricity produced with nuclear
Published: 10:08 am,Tuesday 7 November 2023
Radical events in the Finnish gas market - security of supply ensured
It's only been four years since Finland's natural gas imports were entirely dependent on the Russian pipeline connection. At the beginning of 2020, the Balticconnector between Finland and Estonia was commissioned, and a year ago, in the conditions of energy crisis, so was the floating LNG terminal in
Published: 00:48 am,Saturday 5 August 2023
Investments, Western market replaced Russian energy - prices reflect the new reality
Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, approximately one third of the energy used in Finland was imported from Russia. That share was reduced almost to zero in a few months, and the energy war launched by Russia increased consumer prices remarkably. As the energy markets have
Published: 19:30 pm,Friday 1 September 2023
Reforming the utilisation and regulation of nuke energy
This year, more than 40 per cent of Finnish electricity is produced with nuclear energy. In the future, nuclear energy can also be produced in smaller units and used for new purposes, such as heating industry and buildings. A new outlook for the sector's activities requires a new
Published: 01:01 am,Monday 15 August 2022
Rushdie -- and the world of writers
Problem arises when outrage or disagreement translates into outright violence or the threat of violence against a writer The assault on Salman Rushdie in New York state on Friday has left us all worried about the persistent threats to freedom of writing and of speech in our times. That
Published: 10:53 am,Friday 25 February 2022
Economic fallout from the war
In the early morning of February 24 Russian military invaded Ukraine after a long buildup of forces around the country and in the two imaginary people’s republics. This violation of international law will result in widespread human suffering and economic dislocation. While Ukraine will bear the heaviest cost
Published: 01:33 am,Tuesday 4 January 2022
Nordic co-op also important for safeguarding rights of LGBTI people globally
On 30 November 2021, the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Ministry of Justice co-organised a seminar on the wellbeing and safety of LGBTI people as part of the programme for the Finnish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers. A study commissioned by the Finnish Presidency